But I do understand this one, since a CHINK in one’s armor is a very common saying. My response is that it’s easy to say that if you haven’t been told to “go home, you dirty f*cking chink” (and much worse). For example, I personally take offense to CHINK in puzzles, and a couple of readers have bluntly told me “I’m being too sensitive” (and worse). I respect Will’s viewpoint that people will see what they want to see in any entry. TIMES CROSSWORD EDITOR WILL FULLBut a pitch at someone’s head is usually called a “bean ball,” not a BEANER.Īnd I Googled BEANER to see what came up first - a page full of definitions as the racist term. Yes, BEANER is in the dictionary as a baseball term. This is one of the less than 5% of things that I strongly disagree with, though. I generally think Will does a great job in editing the NYT puzzle - hard to argue with results, with solvership exploding into the hundreds of thousands under his helm. So the editors never heard the slur before, and they didn’t think this was an issue until someone told them.īy the way, here is what Jeff Chen wrote: “Maybe we live in rarified circles,” could perhaps be the most NYTimes response ever. We highlighted the answer in case you missed it:Īnd this screen grab shows the clue for the answer:Īs expected, NYTimes puzzle editor Will Shortz has already issued a half-hearted apology, one that you HAVE to read:Ī response from Will Shortz about the entry 2D in today's crossword puzzle. ‘TAN PENDEJOS (does anyone know what ‘tan means?) įor a second, we thought it was a joke, but yeah, it was real, as these screen grabs of the New York Times’ crossword from Tuesday show. That someone at The NY Times didn’t think that having “beaner” as an answer to a crossword puzzle clue shows AGAIN how clueless they are about Mexican-American ANYTHING. We got this tip from Gustavo Arellano, when he tweeted this on Wednesday night:
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